Tournament information | |
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Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Established | 1953 |
Course(s) | Board of Trade Country Club |
Par | 72 |
Tour(s) | PGA Tour |
Format | Stroke play |
Prize fund | US$175,000 |
Month played | September |
Final year | 1967 |
Tournament record score | |
Aggregate | 274 Dow Finsterwald (1956) |
To par | −14 as above |
Final champion | |
Billy Casper | |
Location Map | |
The Carling World Open was the last incarnation in a series of golf tournaments on the PGA Tour sponsored by the Carling Brewing Company beginning in 1953. [1]
Year | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up | Venue |
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Carling World Open | ||||||
1967 | Billy Casper | 281 | −3 | Playoff | Al Geiberger | Board of Trade, Canada |
1966 | Bruce Devlin | 286 | −6 | 1 stroke | Billy Casper | Royal Birkdale, England |
1965 | Tony Lema | 279 | −5 | 2 strokes | Arnold Palmer | Pleasant Valley, Massachusetts |
1964 | Bobby Nichols | 278 | −2 | 1 stroke | Arnold Palmer | Oakland Hills, Michigan |
1963: No tournament | ||||||
Carling Open Invitational | ||||||
1962 | Bo Wininger | 274 | −10 | 1 stroke | Bert Weaver | Rio Pinar, Florida |
1961 | Gay Brewer | 277 | −3 | 1 stroke | Billy Maxwell | Indian Springs, Maryland |
1960 | Ernie Vossler | 272 | −12 | 1 stroke | Paul Harney | Fircrest, Washington |
1959 | Dow Finsterwald (2) | 276 | −8 | 1 stroke | Gene Littler Mike Souchak | Seneca, Ohio |
1958 | Julius Boros (2) | 284 | −4 | 2 strokes | Billy Casper | Cherokee Town, Georgia |
1957 | Paul Harney | 275 | −9 | 3 strokes | Dow Finsterwald | Flint, Michigan |
1956 | Dow Finsterwald | 274 | −14 | 3 strokes | Jack Burke Jr. Billy Casper Billy Maxwell | Sunset, Missouri |
Carling Golf Classic | ||||||
1955 | Doug Ford | 276 | −12 | 1 stroke | Art Wall Jr. | Charles River, Massachusetts |
Carling Open | ||||||
1954 | Julius Boros | 280 | −8 | Playoff | George Fazio | Manakiki, Ohio |
1953 | Cary Middlecoff | 275 | −13 | Playoff | Ted Kroll | Manakiki, Ohio |
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